With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia. Highlighting the roles of women and men in dryland areas for food security, land conservation/desertification, and the conservation of biodiversity, it makes available key findings on a number of projects and programs in the regions.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2003Kenya, Burkina Faso, Maroc, Afrique du Sud, Mali, Chine, Mauritanie, Inde, Sénégal, Soudan, Niger, Océanie, Asie occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique septentrionale, Asie orientale, Asie méridionale
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2003États-Unis d'Amérique, Gambie, Mali, Éthiopie, Congo, Malawi, Niger, Cameroun, Mozambique, Maroc, Japon, Ouganda, Italie, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Sénégal, Tchad, Afrique
The First International Workshop on Community Forestry in Africa was held in the Gambia in February 1999. It began the process of bringing together all of the African experiences in community-based natural resource management. Until the Gambia workshop, those looking for documentation of existing initiatives would have looked towards Asia for information about best practices and experience in participatory forest management.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2003Bangladesh, États-Unis d'Amérique, Chili, Zimbabwe, Chine, Namibie, Jamaïque, Ghana, Costa Rica, Thaïlande, Mexique, Ouganda, Italie, Pays-Bas, Tunisie, Sri Lanka, Malaisie, Brésil, Grèce
The FAO Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service (FIRI) has been active in promoting the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing in fisheries and aquaculture since 1985. However, a manual to use along with GIS software for the fisheries biologists in the field explaining GIS in a way that is understandable to non-GIS users had not been produced until now. This manual was written to overcome this knowledge-gap, it is a “do-it-yourself-manual” giving a short introduction to GIS software and its applications in fishery science.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2003Bangladesh, Nigéria, Kenya, Mauritanie, El Salvador, Guatemala, Pérou, Indonésie, Jamaïque, Chine, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Mozambique, Maroc, Philippines, Nicaragua, Cambodge, Inde, Tchad, Mexique, Brésil, Cuba
The present paper is a non-academic and thus, hopefully, unpretentious, attempt at reviewing the literature on the the role of local institutions and their interaction in disaster risk mitigation (DRM). What will be found on the following pages is a non-exhaustive compendium of strengths and limitations of local institutions involved in DRM and some suggestions for tapping the former and tackling the latter.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2003Égypte, Bangladesh, Nigéria, Gambie, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chine, Indonésie, Canada, Iran, Bénin, Pakistan, Uruguay, Thaïlande, Italie, Iraq, Inde, Tchad, Mexique, Brésil, Ghana
World agriculture: towards 2015/2030 is FAO’s latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world’s food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry. This analysis forms the basis for a more detailed examination of other factors, such as nutrition and undernourishment, and the implications for international trade.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2003France, Suisse, États-Unis d'Amérique, Mauritanie, Chine, Australie, Ghana, Islande, Cameroun, Nigéria, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Maroc, Japon, Afrique du Sud, Tunisie, Inde, Nouvelle-Zélande, Brésil, Canada
Forests play major roles in climate change. They contribute carbon emissions when destroyed or degraded and they suffer from changing climate, drought and extreme weather. Managed sustainably, they can provide a unique environmental service by removing excess carbon from the atmosphere, storing it in biomass, soils and products. In addition, sustainably produced wood fuels offer an environmentally benign alternative to fossil fuels.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2003Burkina Faso, États-Unis d'Amérique, France, Chine, Pakistan, Australie, République de Corée, Maroc, Mexique, Ouganda, Italie, Botswana, Pays-Bas, Tunisie, Argentine, Inde, Sénégal, Viet Nam
This report summarizes the findings of the e-mail conference that took place from 9 October to 4 November 2002 and which was organized by the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands project (LADA). The report contains exchanges of views on data sets and methods that may be used to assess land degradation and a discussion on the biophysical, socio-economic and institutional indicators that explain the root causes, driving forces, status, impact and reponses to land degradation at various scales.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2003Algérie, Bangladesh, États-Unis d'Amérique, Espagne, Chine, Sri Lanka, Australie, Pakistan, Érythrée, Thaïlande, Népal, Jordanie, Yémen, Oman, Italie, Tunisie, Argentine, Inde, Mexique
The global reproduction of food, notably cereal crops, appears to have been remarkably resilient to the vagaries of climate. The unsung hero in this production chain may well be groundwater. When rainfed agriculture fails, the fallback is usually groundwater. First it is accessed to smooth over the dry periods, and then it becomes a habit. Therefore, staying within strict resource limits would seem to be the obvious piece of management advice.
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